Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com Meet Todd Rossi, president of Field Diagnostic Services Inc. (FDIS), a small Philadelphia-based technology services company that’s working in a multi-billion-dollar industry nobody has heard of – yet. EnergyTechStocks.com is going to call this industry “Human Energy Efficiency.” The concept behind it is simple. With the standard energy management systems businesses use today, each time a building’s air …
VESTAS – NUMBER ONE AND ANNOUNCING IT
Submitted by New Energy News Blog Some people call modern wind turbines “wind mills.” That is as archaic as calling a Corvette a “buggy.” Wind energy was second only to natural gas in providing new electricity in the U.S. in 2007. Just because wind is an emissions-free source of electricity does not mean it is any less substantial than the traditional, …
STATES SUE EPA FOR OIL REFINERY EMISSIONS
Submitted by New Energy News Blog In April, 2007, the Supreme Court changed the course of the fight against global climate change by ruling that greenhouse gases (GhGs) must be considered a pollutant, under the terms of the Clean Air Act, and, therefore, require scrutiny by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for their role in climate change.The decision came in response …
Who’ll Win ‘Smart Grid’ Gold? Keep an Eye on Duke, Ambient, eMeter, EnerNOC, GridPoint, Trilliant & More
Submitted by New Energy News Blog Much has been written about the critical need to fix the faltering power grid, the rapid development of plug-in electric hybrid vehicles in the face of record pump prices, and corporations’ strong interest in energy efficiency to combat rising power costs. Not much has been written – yet – about what has to first be …
WHAT’S THE NEW NEW ENERGY?
Submitted by New Energy News Blog The current debate in the U.S. Congress shows clearly that a large minority of elected representatives means “oil” when it says “energy,” primarily because polls show the U.S. electorate hears “gas pump prices” when it hears energy. The bulk of the electorate seems to like the ideas of solar energy and wind energy, but only …
POLAR BEARS: ENDANGERED, THREATENED OR SHAFTED?
Submitted by New Energy News Blog Blame it on the Mets. Earlier this year, the Department of the Interior (DOI, Interior) listed the polar bear as a threatened species. DOI did NOT, however, list it as an endangered species. Environmentalists claim ice melts, induced by global climate change, make the polar bear an endangered species. DOI says listing the polar bear …
Leading Wall Street Water Analyst Neil Berlant (Pt. 1 of 4) – Look at Infrastructure Firms Ameron, Northwest Pipe, Mueller
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com Leading Wall Street water analyst Neil D. Berlant doesn’t like to recommend specific companies that he thinks will do well in the coming era of rapidly-rising water costs. But during a nearly three-hour interview with EnergyTechStocks.com, Berlant, who manages the PFW Water Fund (Symbol: PFWAX), came close, agreeing to name companies he sees as “representative” of the firms that should …
ETS Investor Alert 8-19-08
Submitted by EnergyTechStocks.com Despite its green rhetoric, the World Bank continues to support massive carbon-producing projects, according to this article. www.enn.com Aside from the moral ambiguity of its position, the World Bank’s continuing proclivity to lend for coal and other “brown” energy projects is further indication that the pressure on fossil fuel sources, especially coal, will continue for years if not decades …
CHINA HOT WATER HEATERS HOTTER
Submitted by New Energy News Blog China Solar & Clean Energy, Inc. (CSOL) specializes in selling small heating applicances adaptable to local energy sources, solar hot water systems and energy efficiency devices in the remote regions and smaller cities in China. Like China itself, CSOL’s business is growing steadily and surprisingly quickly. (See NEW ENERGY IN CHINA) From acquisitions of new small product …
SUN UP DOWN UNDER
Submitted by New Energy News Blog As part of EcoNomics, a newly developed corporate sustainability program, multinational engineering giant WorleyParons is planning the development of a series of solar power plants for remote mining and industrial companies. A check of recent WorleyParsons’ jobs shows an oil refinery expansion and a pipeline project in Canada, offshore drilling platform engineering and maintenance in Siberia …